“The two most badly hit services in the NHS are psychiatry, due to chronic underfunding, and elective orthopaedics. Both have been hit badly in recent months due to the bed crisis.”

All troops requiring surgery are treated by military personnel in eight NHS Trusts “located to provide assessment, stabilisation and treatment close to either the service person’s unit or home”, according to the MoD.

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Troops healthcare is provided by the Defence Medical Services which has a staff of around 6,900 personnel, including doctors, surgeons, psychiatrists, dentists nurses and physiotherapists.

An MOD spokesman said: “The NHS proudly provides the vast majority of treatment for our Armed Forces, but we will occasionally fund additional healthcare over and above what they might provide for the general public, so that our people can get back to protecting our country even quicker.”